What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.